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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation.
  2. adj. Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. That has lost its life and spirit; insipid; dead; flat.
  2. Dull; spiritless; destitute of animation; insipid.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Lifeless, dull or banal.
  2. adj. Tasteless, bland, or insipid.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang
  2. adj. lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest

Etymologies

  1. Latin vapidus.

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